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Jun 10Liked by Chris J Wilson

"If you elevate failure to the grand pedestal of learning, we devote our energy to the wrong areas. " This is incredibly useful reframing!

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Thanks! (I'm sure you'll also appreciate that I corrected my initial typo of "pedal stool")

I came across this idea from two separate sources recently and it made me realise the strengths and weaknesses of failure as the ultimate goal. I suspect most of us waver between overfocusing on "failure", and over focusing "success".

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Jun 9Liked by Chris J Wilson

I came across the concept of learning from success is greater than failure recently too. Thanks for reinforcing that!

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When I first heard it, I had a feeling it was a bit off. I still really like Ali Abdaal's insights in Feel-Good Productivity and hope I got them across too, but I wanted to highlight the other side of it.

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